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My aunt suffers from seasonal affective disorder. All she feels like doing is sleeping on those dark grey days in winter.
I agree with Clover, that citrus scents are gently enlivening. Although I don't exactly get S.A.D. and usually go out in all weather, and don't mind the long dark evenings, I have a mandarin and grapefruit body wash, and it does have a positive effect on me on those dark rainy mornings! There really is a 'zing' to it!
If I am missing the sunshine, I look at sunny videos! Or beautiful sunsets/sunrises, or try to imagine and visualise them when relaxing. Sometimes I might take myself on an imaginary journey. For me it is high summer late afternoon, dappled sunlight coming through trees in the woods, and the atmosphere of it all. Anything but leaden grey skies, rain and perpetual twilight!
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